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To: Elmer Phud who wrote (259413)	4/4/2009 4:53:32 AM
From: rzborusa	Respond to of 275872

EP, Prices decline while performance improves. How is this a detriment? If the primary purpose of the law is to protect consumers, in what way have consumers been harmed? Can you see any problem with intense concentration of Power? The lack of competition is the lack of choice and the lack of choice is the antithesis of freedom. This is not specific to Intel or any other company. It is just that power affects its surroundings in ways that restrict. Intel is pretty scary. Where will Intel and MS take us. I hope we have some decent alternatives. Had Intel slowed down their rate of advancement and raised prices so that AMD could have remained competitive, would having a choice benefited the consumer in spite of higher prices and lower performance? Higher performing parts will get here a little faster or slower won't matter much. If it is slower and more diverse that might be better. If the gross domestic product were less and we hadn't had some of the problems wouldn't we be better off. So, lets not get off on a tangent about progress when we might not like where it will take us. Diversity insures there will be an alternate path. Does choice trump lower cost and higher performance? Choice trumps all, economic or otherwise. Without choice the road less traveled doesn't even exist.